I sit me bass on a conventional guitar stand onstage - 2 problems, (1) my cable is threaded behind the strap - when i pick the bass up to play sometimes the cable hooks one of the prongs it sits on and i wind up picking up the stand as well (not nice on the output jack) - (2) bass sits awkwardly as cable lies on right prong instead of bottom of bass (makes for precarious -sitting bass and again not good for output jack). any ideas? how do you sit your bass onstage?

When I get around to it, I'm going to make a fold-out neck grabber type of device to mount to the side of my top 2x10 cab. Same kind of thing Simon is referring to. Beats lugging a big, annoying, funny shaped stand along.

portnawake wrote:I've put T-nuts and hex bolts on the side of my top cab to mount a Hercules hook.
Maybe I'll add bolts on the other side too, as sometimes the setup favors one side more than the other.

You could get a wide strip of industrial velcro and make a neck-wrap kind of thing like you see inside some gig-bags. 100mm of hook and 100mm of loop sewn or glued together and fixed to the cab in the middle.

And if your cab has rat-fur covering another piece of velcro could secure it to the cab.